The capital?s Museum of Fine Arts will open an exhibition of drawings by the 19th century graphic artist Honoré Daumier and his contemporaries early in the year. The show, called St. Gallen Adventures, features the work of Hans Hartung, Antoni Tápies and Günther Uecker. It can be seen until the end of March.
The museum is continuing its series of photography exhibitions with a show called The Birth of Modern Art Photography focusing on the first three decades of the 20th century. Included in the show are works by André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, József Pécsi and Károly Escher.
Visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts can see a show of paintings by Pieter Brueghel and his contemporaries from the middle of June. In August, museum-goers can get a glimpse into contemporary Chinese art.
In the autumn, the museum plans a show of gold treasures from the ancient kingdom of Colchis in present-day Georgia.
The Museum of Fine Arts will open Cézanne and the Past at the end of October. In addition to 80-100 paintings, drawings and watercolours by Cézanne, the show will include works by 30-40 masters from the 16th to 19th centuries.
The neighbouring Műcsarnok will open a show of steel sculptures by the French artist Bernar Venet from the end of January.
In April, the exhibition space will show the work of contemporary artists from the Romania city of Cluj Napoca, among them Zsolt Berszán, Mircea Cantor, Ciprian Muresan and Szabolcs Veres.
Works by Rózsa El-Hassan, László Fehér and József Szurcsik will feature in a show entitled What is Hungarian Now?
The Műcsarnok will close the year with a show of work by Imre Bukta called Other Hungary.
The museum will open a new space underneath its main exhibition space dubbed Mélycsarnok, or ?Deep Hall? in Hungarian. The space will show the work of Szilvia Seres, the performance artist Marina Abramovic, the ?invisible drawings? of Éva Magyrósi, Christian Marclay?s Venice Biennale Golden Lion-winning video work The Clock, the work of Fischli/Weiss from Switzerland and a collection of work by the street artist Banksy.
The Ernst Museum will show the sometimes provocative work of the Polish artist Natalia LL from January, and Derkovits Prize scholarship winners will go on display from April.
The Ernst Centennial show will feature the work of Egon Schiele, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Arnulf Rainer, Cindy Sherman and Andres Serrano.
An exhibition of mostly photographs by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will close the year at the Ernst Museum.
The Hungarian National Gallery, which will come under the direction of the Museum of Fine Arts from the spring, will show Heroes, Kings, Saints in honour of Hungary?s new Constitution from January 3. The images, most of which are historical portrayals, include Mihály Munkácsy?s The Conquest, which will leave the parliament building for the first time.
A show of Hungarian reproducible graphic art from the period between 1892 and 1914 as well as an exhibition called Art and Sport, timed to coincide with the London Olympics are also on the Hungarian National Gallery?s calendar.
Budapest?s Ludwig Museum (LUMU) will open a show of the oeuvres of János Megyik in March. Société Réaliste: Empire, State, Building, will follow. LUMU will host an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the end of May. A show of work by Antal Lakner as well an exhibition of the installations of John Cage are also on the programme.
The Museum of Applied Arts will open Art Deco and Modernism together with the Budapest Spring Festival. The show features Hungarian interior design between 1920 and 1940. A show of 400 objects from London?s Victoria and Albert Museum will go on display from the end of May, entitled Art and Design For All.
